BREAKING:Explosion At Boston Marathon

Originally posted by MRuss
On CNN tonight, one of the reporters said that the photo they are interested in showed one of the suspects sort of cupping his mouth, which would
correspond with a photo being talked about at Reddit for the past 24 hours. This has to be what she is referring to. I've been looking at this
picture all day.....

I will say that the guy in the blue clearly has a strap running across his chest, indicating that he may still have the bag on his shoulder. The guy
in the black with the white hat doesn't appear to have the bag in the later pictures. Of course, it is common for people to take BACKpacks off and
hold them in front of them in crowded areas... Not dismissing this at all though. The guy does seem to fit the description that has been "leaked"
for lack of a better term. His hat isn't backwards though.

Not only that, but if they describe them further then the cat will be out of the bag.. If they are suspecting the guys in these pictures then the
whole world will know in minutes. These pictures have been widely distributed already. People are essentially foaming at the mouth waiting to pin it
on someone picked out in these photographs..

The guy in the blue does still have his bag it appears. I am posting from my phone at work so can't post pics, but there is another pic of those two
out there that almost makes me think the guy in black still has his bag but it's just not on his back anymore.

I say this because of the spacing between him and the woman in front of him. Again, I can't post pics right now but it's a zoomed in frontal shot of
the two.

Originally posted by MRuss
On CNN tonight, one of the reporters said that the photo they are interested in showed one of the suspects sort of cupping his mouth, which would
correspond with a photo being talked about at Reddit for the past 24 hours. This has to be what she is referring to. I've been looking at this
picture all day.....

I want to point out that I'm pretty sure the first bomb was exploded just a couple feet from where they are standing in the first picture.

The little black fence in the bottom right in your picture is the top left fence in this picture.

edit on 17-4-2013 by ManiShuck because: had wrong left/right

I noticed that on the bottom image, if you look below the guy in the white hat, about 5 o'clock position, it looks as if someone is setting down or
looking at something on the ground.. I've been looking at these photos all day and just noticed it.. Could be nothing, just felt it should be pointed
out?

Originally posted by SMR
I see nothing suspect other than a bag which in my opinion, was not the bomb.

I think this just may be the second bomb after all.
The gentleman in this image below, the second image, White shirt, Gray pants, is on Anderson Cooper and he pretty much describes what happened and how
and he only got hit in the face because the bomb was blocked on the one side by the Mailbox. He was standing on the Left side of the box when it
happened.

If that truly is the bomb, how in the hell can security not see something like that and not be suspect ?
You have to take your shoes off at the airport but a bag left on the ground at an event with thousands gets overlooked ?
And if that is the bomb, then what about the search for the men with the bags and one was Black the other a duffel style and Blue ... This looks like
a grocery plastic bag with a paper bag inside.

Originally posted by chopperdudep
In response to the explosion at the fertilizer plant. It could really just be a coincidence, I mean.. I'm no expert on fertilizer but don't many of
them have highly flammable contents and chemicals?

Thanks for that to hang on to. Which I will, ferociously. But I'm skeptical of "coincidences".

There is nothing in this link that I haven't already speculated on in my posts appearing on pages 47, 111, and 124 of this thread, by either
promoting or dismissing certain dynamics of the attack through simple application of both common sense and logic.

Motive is everything. Attacks like these are shaped and designed to motive in order for the reason and point of the attack to be perceived and
understood by others. Motive always seeks vindication, it wants agreement. The shape, size, and design of the attack always wears the mask of
motive and is what supplies precursory clues to 'whom' and 'why'. It is the first piece of the scaffold to any investigation.

However, motive always requires a link to the target, even if it is in the abstract. In this case, in this attack, the target was the crowd,
representing society in general. The bomber did not care for who he hurt, or for what age group, or from what socio-economic background, all were
targets of vindication in his mind.

Was the attack politically-motivated? No, not in a specific sense, and very loosely in a general sense. I understand it was Patriot's Day in Boston,
but the attack was upon the crowd of a sporting event, and not a crowd celebrating the history or noble meaning of the day at some monument.
Therefore, I would dismiss the attack as being specifically political, and to be more abstract than that.

I had originally thought the bomber to be aged between 18 to 25. The crudity of the bomb's design and the materials used, also the actual scale of
the attack - absent of professional grading - seemed to indicate inexperience, and possibly a certain degree of impoverishment? However, the attack
seems to bear the hallmark of teaching society a lesson, and this would require a grievance towards society to build and fester over time, so the
bomber may be slightly older and may be between 25 and 35 years of age?

Could he be a conspiracy theorist? This would depend upon how aloof he is to society. He would most certainly have 'lurked' and visited sites like
ATS, but would have gone deeper to retain anonymity, so may very well be a 'Tor' user. He would have frequented particular sites that fed his
grievance, where he could find some form of affiliation that would help to incubate his ideas and aid his research on bomb-making.

The bomber's main intent with his attack looks to have been to maim rather than kill outright. The bomb's crude design has the aspect of an
'anti-personel' mine, and I think therein lies the grievance and lesson. America is one of 36 countries that have not signed up to a reduction in
anti-personel mine usage...

...and is the one country that makes and sells them to other countries, and so the bomber may be linked to any one of those countries, even coming
from one of them, or is an American perceiving shame at the part America plays in the many thousands of deaths and injuries world-wide by the
anti-personnel mines they have sold through its arms industry?

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